▶ 1939, September 1939, September 23rd 1939, the United Kingdom, London, …England,
Europe,
the EU,
Great Britain,
the world,
Greater London,
Western Europe,
the British Isles,
the Northern Hemisphere,
Northern Europe,
Middlesex, England and Wales, the London telephone code area,
the G8, the true knowledge good local retailer coverage area,
US postal Group 5, the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, the British time region, Africa-Eurasia,
Eurasia,
suicide,
euthanasia
▶ The Interpretation of Dreams, Civilization and Its Discontents, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, The Ego and the Id, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, …Totem and Taboo,
Moses and Monotheism, On Narcissism, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life,
Studies on Hysteria, Delusion and Dream in Jensen's Gradiva, Future of an Illusion, The Interpretation of Dreams (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."; "We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."; "We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."; "We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."; "Time spent with cats is never wasted."; "The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."; "The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture."; "The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."; "The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."; "The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water."; "The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."; "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."; "The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?""; "The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."; "The goal of all life is death."; "The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."; "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."; "The ego is not master in its own house."; "The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."; "The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."; "The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."; "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."; "Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends."; "Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."; "Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."; "One is very crazy when in love."; "Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."; "Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."; "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."; "Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."; "Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."; "Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."; "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."; "Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."; "Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."; "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."; "It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."; "Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?"; "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."; "If youth knew; if age could."; "He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."; "He does not believe that does not live according to his belief ."; "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."; "Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."; "Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."; "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy."; "Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."; "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."; "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."; "Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."; "Anatomy is destiny."; "Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."; "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."; "America is a mistake, a giant mistake."; "A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."; "A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world."; "A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."; "A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."; "A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
